Products: Glass & IG Components

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Designed to provide form, function and beauty, decorative glazing panels can be used in a variety of applications, including windows, doors, skylights, room dividers and jalousies. Offered in translucent to opaque versions, the panels combine real flowers, reeds, grasses and leaves with hand-made and machine-made materials for sun control and even power generation by encapsulating photovoltaic... more »

Sungate 600 glass is designed to help homes retain furnace and solar heat, especially in cold, Northern climates. From PPG Industries, the glass features a pyrolitic coating developed specifically for application on the exposed room-side (No. 4) surface of an insulating glass unit. The coating is durable because it is chemically bonded to the glass while it is still molten, and its star-... more »

The first in a new family of fourth surface coated low-E glasses from Guardian Industries, ClimaGuard IS-15 and IS-20 are designed to help meet new residential codes and Energy Star standards while giving window makers easy fabrication options. ClimaGuard IS-20 enables residential window makers to meet current code requirements for U-values without the use of argon gas or a third pane of glass... more »

Low-E 4th Surface Technology from Pilkington allows a double-glazed IG unit to achieve a 12 percent improved thermal performance over a triple-pane unit, the company states. Adding a pyrolytic low-E coating to the #4 surface of the unit reflects infrared heat back into the home, reducing the amount of radiant heat loss through the glass. Infrared heat is room heat generated inside a building at... more »

New dual-coat technology helps dual-pane insulating glass units for residential applications achieve R-5 insulating performance, according to the supplier. From PPG Industries, the IG design incorporates one 3 mm pane of Solarban 70XL glass with the coating on the second (#2) surface of and one 3 mm pane of Sungate 500 glass with the coating on the fourth (#4) surface, separated by a... more »

Designed to deliver triple-pane performance in a dual-glazed configuration, Cardinal Glass Industies' LoE-i81 is manufactured using the latest innovation in sputter coating technology applied on the interior lite of an IG unit, or the #4 surface of a double-pane window. When coupled with Cardinal LoE3-366, glass and argon fill in a double-pane IG unit, the center of glass U-factor is only 0.20,... more »